This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...of a century ago. I know this building, for it used to be the office of the White Oaks Golden Era, and between my legal labors I used to edit the White Oaks Golden Era, and get $5.00 a week for it. The only man in town who thought I was worth that much money was Stan. Taliaferro, who owned the paper. He sold it, it was moved to Lincoln, and died. Stan, himself came back to Watseka, Illinois, and was elected mayor on the prohibition ticket not long ago. I looked with a certain curiosity at this scene of early activities. Office Of "the Golden Era," White Oaks, N. M., 1883. (it Was Here That Mr. Hough Began His Literary Career, As Editor Of "the Golden Era") This brought to mind our hated rival of twenty years ago, the White Oaks Leader. I asked for Major Caffrey, the editor of the Leader, who used to pour such hot ones into the Era in return for our courtesies to him. Dead, eleven years ago! He died in '93, the same year in which Uncle John Brothers passed away. Then there was Dye, the litigious, who jumped every claim on Baxter Peak. He is now at Joplin, Missouri, in zinc, and I trust not so industrious there. I hear he is pretty well fixed. I don't find my old friend Jimmie Alcock, of the Carrizozo stock ranch. Poor Jimmie! He left White Oaks, went to Colorado, lost all his money, and had both legs broken in an accident. He was plucky, however, and is now down in Arizona, foreman in a mine at Bisbee, in stead of foreman of a cattle ranch. W. C. McDonald, our old county surveyor and mining engineer, is now foreman of the Carrizozo ranch, doing well. He handed his English stockholders about $60,000 a year ago, which is pretty good for a year in the cow business these days. My old law partner, George Beall, who used to...